UK K0 on eBay...one for the debating society

[AshimotoK0]

looks and sounds nice in the video
not an early one like yours though ash

Welcome back Pete .. sadly missed your posts on here !

[AshimotoK0]

Just notice K1 type carbs to go with the black stripe tank trim. K0/K1 interim perhaps?

[UK Pete]

Thanks ash, its been a year since i was on here, as you know sorting my health and life out has kept me busy
but i still have shit loads of sohc bikes which i have to do something with ,so i thought i would have a look in and see whats occuring

[steff750]

  Yes nice to have you back good boy pete

ive never seen a k0 registered as late as that one.

@ ash i stand corrected  i have one registered may 1971 doh, and i would think its to early to be a k0/k1 interim
but then how would i remember stuff like that

[philward]

Why's no one bidding on this!

[Trigger]

Why's no one bidding on this!

Because you have not put a bid on it yet 

[philward]

If it stayed at that price - I would - but that's doubtful!

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[Sparrow1]

Well,
  It seems to have disappeared off EBay?
  Has it sold and I wonder what for? A shrewd restorer/ collector perhaps? 😉 It needed quite a pot to get it up to fine fickle though or just ride it of course..

  Nige.

[AshimotoK0]

Well,
  It seems to have disappeared off EBay?
  Has it sold and I wonder what for? A shrewd restorer/ collector perhaps? 😉 It needed quite a pot to get it up to fine fickle though or just ride it of course..

  Nige.

It happens all of the time Nigel and really bugs me, as I would never pull a bike once it's been on there for sale for a few days and has lots of watchers or bids. eBay have really tightened up on selling recently to the point that you can't even include your phone number in listings/messages ...  I even thought of linking a photo in a message reply, where the photo has your contact details included on it but evidently they scrutinise any attachment photo details too. ......so when are they going to clamp down on the auction pullers ? they must be losing a fortune in selling fees on those pulled auctions.

Another thought ...maybe his missus came back  & he's keeping  it !

[Woodside]

i got an ebay 7 day ban for sending my number to a guy..
i have also sent pictures of my number or email in their add pictures on the message reply...my pal takes pics infront of his work van with all his contact details on...
i suspect the guy panicked and pulled the add due to no bids

[Sparrow1]

Indeed Ash,
  There was a time, not so long ago, that bike would of recieved several bids - really odd it had NONE!?! Would love to know why, as I never stop learning with these bikes, to hear if it had any major/expensive faults. There are a lot of K0's out there now. When I had brought mine, only 4 years ago, they were quite rare and seemed sought after (and still should be in my opinion.) Maybe it will show up one day. Pity it's bit been locked away for so long. Someone has certainly not realised ther investment (if that was the intention) on this occasion.
  I Thought that, based on the poor photos, as Julie observed, it would of sold for around £7000 min.
  How many did they import? 200? Less? 50?
  Nige.
 

[Nurse Julie]

Maybe someone went round and looked at it and made the seller an offer he was happy with and removed it from ebay.

[AshimotoK0]

Indeed Ash,
  There was a time, not so long ago, that bike would of recieved several bids - really odd it had NONE!?! Would love to know why, as I never stop learning with these bikes, to hear if it had any major/expensive faults. There are a lot of K0's out there now. When I had brought mine, only 4 years ago, they were quite rare and seemed sought after (and still should be in my opinion.) Maybe it will show up one day. Pity it's bit been locked away for so long. Someone has certainly not realised ther investment (if that was the intention) on this occasion.
  I Thought that, based on the poor photos, as Julie observed, it would of sold for around £7000 min.
  How many did they import? 200? Less? 50?
  Nige.
 

Not sure on the exact numbers Nigel but I suspect Honda UK got their fingers burned with the CB450K0 Bombers . I think someone told me that they commited to 1000 CB450K0  bikes in 1966 and those didn't sell as well as expected, so they were still being sold off at discount into the early 1970's. You never see a genuine '67 UK bike with flip front seat (like JamesH's USA import), probably because of this. So they probably 'tested the water' with the CB750 diecast in Jan. 1970 with an initial batch of 20 'ish. The 1st one 1010369 belongs to a member on here and mine is 14 numbers up from that. The UK press bike  was 1015262 and was 1st regd  25/02/70. I reckon that would have been been registered and handed to the press/publicity dept pretty pronto on arrival of it's  shipping batch into the UK. I did start a register of UK 750 diecasts but I still work full time so I will probably get back into it when I go 3-days next year. Any info gratefully received. I know Steff on here has a few UK early diecasts (don't like to call them K0's)

[Sparrow1]

I think you've got it right Julie. I wonder what he sold it for.. I must admit I was tempted but the lack of bids... I'm not an expert on these as Trigg knows! I just was't sure..
  Ash, interesting. Oops,  Bombers agin!! Soreeee.. My Bomber is one of the first 50 imported as it so happens.
  But, interestingly, I actually have a mint General export UK spec K1( they were generally named the K1) manufacturedi in '69, reg in 70 as confirmed on the VIN and V5. Yes, it actually has the forward lifting seat, with it's support bar! Cute..  I believe these 450 GE export UK specs are very rare now - rarer than the UK bombers.
  Thanks for the heads up, very interesting.
  Nige.

[philward]

I wonder if he withdrew the bike before the 12 hour ebay withdrawal deadline because he was worried the bids would be less than he anticipated/wanted - bearing in mind he had no bids so close to the end. He would have had to honour the sale if someone bid say £6k

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